“There is a lot of misinformation out there,” Frances Berwick, president of NBCUniversal Cable’s Lifestyle Networks, said Tuesday of the controversy that spilled onto the Golden Globes red carpet on Sunday. “Catt Sadler and Jason Kennedy had different roles and therefore different salaries.”

“Catt was focused on daytime, Jason Kennedy is on prime evening news and the red carpet,” the E! boss continued at the Television Critics Association press tour. “Our employees’ salaries are based on their roles and their expertise, regardless of gender. So we wish Catt well, but I hope that sets the record straight.”

“There was a massive disparity in pay between my similarly situated male co-host and myself,” she said. “More recently, when E! reached out to renew and extend my deal, I learned that he [Kennedy] wasn’t just making a little more than I was. In fact, he was making close to double my salary for the past several years.”

At the time, Sadler appeared to be referring to Kennedy, her “E! News” and “E! News Weekend” co-host.

In her statement, Sadler said she and her team repeatedly “asked for what I know I deserve,” but were denied each time. Citing a “close friend and colleague” who started at the network the same time she did, Sadler said “how can I operate with integrity and stay on at E if they’re not willing to pay me the same as him? Or at least come close?”

“How can I accept an offer that shows they do not value my contributions and paralleled dedication all these years? How can I not echo the actions of my heroes and stand for what is right no matter what the cost? How can I remain silent when my rights under the law have been violated?” she continued.

Sadler joined the network in 2010. In addition to “E! News,” she also hosted several of E!’s “Live From the Red Carpet” shows and was one of three hosts on the daytime talk show “Daily Pop,” which launched in May.

Today is Equal Pay Day, dedicated to equal pay for men and women. But in Hollywood, a true equal payday is a long way away. Here are 14 horrifying stats, and some telling anecdotes.

Iron Man Beats Katniss

"The world’s highest-paid actress, [Jennifer] Lawrence, made $52 million in the 12 months to June 2015," Forbes wrote last year. "An impressive number until it is compared to the $80 million banked by Robert Downey Jr., the world’s top-paid actor."

Lawrence wrote a powerful essay about pay inequality after the Sony email hack revealed that she was paid less than her male "American Hustle" co-stars.

“Got a steve warren/gretchen rush call that it’s unfair the male actors get 9 percent in the pool and jennifer is only at 7pts,” wrote a Sony executive in a leaked email. “You may recall Jennifer was at 5 (amy was and is at 7) and WE anted in 2 extra points for Jennifer to get her up to 7. If anyone needs to top jennifer up it’s megan [producer Megan Ellison]. BUT I think amy and Jennifer are tied so upping JL, ups AA.”

"While male actors see their careers peak at the age of 46, female actors reach their professional pinnacles at age 30, according to a TIME analysis of the careers of over 6,000 actors and actresses."

Katniss, Black Widow and... That's Itfor Women

"Scarlett Johansson, who earned $35.5 million last year, was the only film actress to join Lawrence on the 2015 edition of the Celebrity 100, Forbes’ list of top-paid celebrities," Forbes added.

One Anonymous Perspective

"Across the board at the executive level, it's at least a 20 percent difference between men and women's salaries," said one top female executive at a premium cable network.

A female producer of Oscar-nominated dramas told TheWrap that Hollywood's pay gap between genders is "easily 20 or 30 percent." She stressed that female producers and directors, and not just actresses, are undercut.

For films released in 2014 and TV shows in 2014-15, 66.5 percent of speaking characters were male, and just 33.5 percent were female, according to a USC study.

Who Gets to Direct

In the same time period, 84.8 percent of directors were male, while just 15.2 percent were female, the USC study found.

Who Gets to Write

Same study: 71.1 percent of writers were male, and 28.9 percent were female.

Outnumbered

In 2012-13, women were outnumbered 2-to-1 among film leads, 8-to-1 among film directors, and 4-to-1 among film writers, according to a UCLA study.

On TV, women were outnumbered nearly 2-to-1 in leading roles, nearly 2-to-1 among creators of broadcast scripted shows, more than 2-to-1 among creators of cable scripted shows and more than 4-to-1 among the creators of digital series, that study found.

Women made up 19 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2015, according to a San Diego State University Study. Of the top 100 films, women filled just 16 percent of the same roles.

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Hollywood has a long way to go toward fair pay

Today is Equal Pay Day, dedicated to equal pay for men and women. But in Hollywood, a true equal payday is a long way away. Here are 14 horrifying stats, and some telling anecdotes.